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Points which Mr. Chen Gang wished conveyed to Mr. Stones.
Guangzhou 20th July 1981.
Status of the Feasibility Study Report.
Mr. Chen Gang enquired whether CLP required approval for the Feasibility Study Report as did GPC. He asked if it would be possible to proceed with the next phase of the nuclear project as soon as approval was given in Beijing or would there be a need to wait for the approval of the Hong Kong/U.K. Governments?
He requested CLP to advise him in this regard.
Status of the Feasibility Study Report. in Beijing.
Mr. Chen advised that he was accompanied by the four co-chairmen of the Feasibility Study Subcommittees. He said that the Report was still being reviewed and he was required to report to Beijing again at very short notice.
Being the first nuclear power station in China and an extremely large project on its own merit, ad also being the biggest of any Joint Ventures in China so far, very great importance was attached to it by the Central Government. The Joint Feasibility Study Report was therefore being examined very thoroughly.
Generally speaking, the reviewing process was proceeding well and given support by the State Council and all the Government Departments concerned.
The reason why the reviewing process was taking long was not because of any major problems which had arisen but because of the large amount of work which was covered by the five volumes of the Feasibility Study Report. Moreover, since no project had ever been embarked upon using such large sums of foreign loans, it was necessary for
Mr. Chen and his colleagues to explain the details over and over again.
Report by the System Design Subcommittee.
The choice of 900 MW generating sets was considered to be appropriate from the power system point of view. Other points raised in this report were also reviewed,
This report was approved.
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Report by the Site Selection Subcommittee.
The details of this report were examined. It was agreed that the choice of site at Daken in Daya Bay opposite the Dong Shan site, was appropriate, although more work had to be done to prove its geological soundness.